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Reference
Wolff, B. (2020). Restoring the glory of Serampore. Colonial heritage, popular history and identity during rapid urban development in West Bengal. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 27(8), 777–791. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2020.1824163
The Serampore Initiative. (2020). National Museum of Denmark. https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/historical-knowledge-the-world/asia/india/the-history-of-serampore/the-serampore-initiative/
The Serampore Initiatives - West Bengal Heritage Commission https://wbhc.in/home/serampore_initiative
Nationalmuseet. (2020, August 11). Serampore & Denmark - A Living History by the Ganges. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17hl6rmZUSM
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Welcome to Revise and Resubmit 🎙️—where sentences march, then dance, then whisper, like Serampore’s streets at dusk under a fast-rising skyline.
Tonight’s spotlight is “Restoring the glory of Serampore: Colonial heritage, popular history and identity during rapid urban development in West Bengal,” by Bente Wolff.
It follows how once-European buildings become local memory markers and identity anchors as metropolitan Kolkata’s momentum presses in.
A tale that begins with ghosts and ends with citizens, set in the Danish-founded town core of Serampore, now alive with vernacular pride.
This study appears in the International Journal of Heritage Studies—prestigious, peer-reviewed, and recognized on the ABDC Journal Quality List at the B tier.
First online on 18 September 2020 and later gathered into Volume 27 (2021), Issue 8, “Heritagizing Asian Cities.”
Published by Taylor & Francis, a home for wide-ranging, interdisciplinary heritage scholarship.
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This is a story of place and pace—short streets, long memories, slow restoration, rapid change 🏛️🌆.
When buildings speak, sentences should too—some short, some winding, all alive 🎧.
Thank you to author Bente Wolff and to the publisher Taylor & Francis for making this conversation possible 🙏.
So here’s the curious question: when a colonial façade becomes a neighborhood’s mirror, whose reflection is restored—and whose is still waiting in the wings ❓
